By Wu Siya

BEIJING, July. 16 (China Economic Net) - Themed “Connecting the World for a Shared Future”, the 3rd China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE), the first supply chain expo at the national level worldwide, is set to be held in Beijing from July 16 to July 20, featuring exhibitions, forums, seminars and trade fairs.

The CISCE Exhibition Hall [Photo/CISCE]

From product R&D and design, procurement and transportation of raw materials, to production and distribution of semi-finished and finished products, to final consumption, through which forms a chain system that requires efficient collaboration, the supply chain.

With an exhibition area of about 120,000 square meters, the five-day expo has attracted a total of 651 enterprises from 75 countries and regions. The proportion of overseas exhibitors this year has reached about 35%, in which European and United States exhibitors accounted for 50%, and the Fortune Global 500 and industry leading enterprises accounted for more than 65%. More than that, it will embrace 170 overseas delegations, an increase of 21% over the previous session.

“NVIDIA has become the computing platform that drives the global AI ecosystem. In China, more than 1.5 million developers are turning their innovations into reality on our platform. DeepSeek, Alibaba, Tencent Hunyuan, MiniMax, Baidu Ernie Bot, all of such world-class models that were bred and shared in China are driving the mushrooming development of global AI,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, in his opening speech. “Hundreds of projects in China are using NVIDIA Omniverse to simulate digital twins for the design and optimization of factories and warehouses, which is the best example of how AI is bringing new growth opportunities to China’s outstanding supply chain ecosystem.”

“Our recent research shows that if current tensions continue to escalate, the global trading system will be severely damaged, with non-fuel exports from developing countries will decline by 33% over the next five years,” stressed John W.H. Denton, Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce. “It is necessary that events like today highlight the need for shared development.”

The third CISCE consists of seven exhibition areas, namely Supply Chain Service, Digital Technology, Healthy Life, Green Agriculture, Smart Vehicle, Clean Energy and the advanced Manufacturing chain. The reporter learned that many companies come here together with upstream and downstream suppliers for win-win effect. “It’s not about competing for business, but collaborating for partners,” reflecting the feature of this expo with the theme of “Chain”.

Also, the 3rd CISCE are going to release the 2025 edition of the Global Supply Chain Promotion Report. Alongside the report, a series of latest indices were introduced: the Global Supply Chain Promotion Index, the Global Supply Chain Connectivity Index, the Global Supply Chain Innovation Index, and the Global Supply Chain Resilience Index, all of which will more accurately present global supply chain trends and major risks through quantitative analysis methods.

Ren Hongbin, chairman of CCPIT, noted that the data-driven insights offered by the report addressed key questions related to global supply chain connectivity and disruption risks, which are of great concern to both governments and the global business community.